Way to persevere! All days are good, some are also hard. Sardonic grin. With abandon, Patrick
On Monday, July 21, 2014 3:37:54 PM UTC-6, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I suppose we have all had rides like this, and after two wonderful rides > in the Adirondacks over the weekend, maybe I was due. > > This morning I headed out on the Saluki (Riv content) for a 25 mile loop > that included a stop to visit a friend recovering from colin cancer and > another at a farm stand for fresh corn for dinner. As soon as I started I > realized the minimalist sneakers I was wearing and the White Ind Pedals > with Bruce Gordon clips was a bad combination. My foot was sliding all > over the pedal and by the time these low profile shoes made contact with > the clips I was pushing with the back half of my arch. I've never really > entirely warmed to the no clip option but ride them to give my foot some > variety after surgery a couple of years ago. I decided to soldier on. > > As I headed down a steep slope on the aptly named "Rollin Irish Rd." I > tried to lift the chain onto the big ring. It wouldn't go and my foot > couldn't stay with the spin going downhill. At the next top and first sign > of shade, I stopped and adjusted the set screw on the FD. I had lots and > lots of rolling terrain to go through and really wanted that ring to push > on. However, I soon realized that I was now having trouble trimming the > FD. No matter what I did it seemed to rub somewhere and the rattle which > had developed between the steel bottle and cage made it harder to figure > out. Onward I struggle down a beautiful dirt road. > > On the return trip the trim problem only seemed to get worse and my rhythm > was completely off. On an up shift the chain now jumped across the 48 and > wrapped around the crank arm. Looking straight down I suddenly realized > that the FD had gotten knocked out of parallel. But as I sat back down I > had the sensation that my saddle was loose and moving up & down. I stood > up and gave it a push. Just a bit of movement. Now five miles from home I > had feet sliding around, a FD that wouldn't trim, a water bottle rattling, > and a saddle bobbing. At about three miles I hit a mile of 8-9% grade that > I usually climb in a 34/27 but with my saddle now quite loose and given > how out of sync I was I tried to downshift to the little ring. The FD went > across and into the fender while the chain ground against the > parallelogram. Time to walk. At least at the top of that hill I had two > miles of dirt road to coast down. > > Tomorrow is another day. Everything is fixable. > > Michael > Westford, VT > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
